Publisher, Dave Duffy ; Senior Editor, John Silviera ; Managing Editor, Jessie Denning ; Editorial Coordinator, Lisa Nourse ; Associate Editor, Rhoda Denning ; Artist, Don Childers. -- title page verso.
Contents:
Issue number 163: Bugging out in place -- Prioritizing preparedness when money is tight -- Make a custom-sized board -- 10 foods to forage in winter -- Grid-down battery devices -- How to make a straw mattress -- Processing chickens for farmers' markets -- Understanding the gun debate, part 3 -- Comparing heating fuel costs -- Prune your apple tree -- Will's Workshop: Build a wood-fired water heater --Ask Jackie -- The adventures of a first-time homesteader -- The Last Word: A universal "concealed carry" permit. Issue number 164: Building a sunken greenhouse -- Growing and using peppers -- Make seed starter pots from toilet paper tubes -- Make coiled rugs from scrap material -- Off-grid lighting sold by the foot -- You can't prepare for everything -- Prospecting for morels -- Insects in the garden -- Glass gem corn -- Ayoob on Firearms: The "daily gun" -- Ask Jackie -- Don't throw out that old wagon! -- Attract useful birds to your homestead -- Will's Workshop: Build birdhouse -- Homemade pest traps. Issue number 165: Publisher's Note: BHM will morph into a digital magazine and publishing company -- My view: Fake News and the growing irrelevancy of the mass media -- The economics of homesteading -- Growing produce in Zone 0 -- Make vegetable noodles -- Home-grown eggs -- Digging a shallow well -- Communications during a grid-down event -- A good rooster -- There's no such thing as free land! (But if you're smart, you can get it cheap) -- Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie -- Ask Jackie -- Ayoob on Firearms: Economy guns from blue chip makers -- The gee-whiz! page: Inventions for the ages. Issue Number 166: Build an off-grid root cellar, garage, and bunkhouse -- A simple, easy rocket stove -- Small-scale skidding -- Canning game meat -- Off-grid retreat -- putting it all together -- Grow open-pollinated tomatoes -- Ayoob on Firearms: Gun cleaning -- what some folks miss -- Three easy quilts to make -- Make cheese like a Viking -- Construct some fly-through bird feeders -- Sharpen a chainsaw like a pro -- Will's Workshop: Replace broken tool handles -- Syrian cuisine travels across the world -- Ask Jackie. Issue number 167: My view: The obviousness of it all -- My zero-waste experiment -- Your survival depends on water -- How to grow garlic -- Solutions for common apple tree problems -- Making apple pectin -- How to slaughter and butcher a goat -- The truth about DIY laundry soap -- Ayoob on Firearms: Marksmanship mistakes: The Asoh defense -- Growing, harvesting, and storing potatoes -- Off-grid retreat -- putting it all together, part 2 -- Everyday carry: A "frontline" survival kit when you're away from hoem -- The gee-whiz! page: The canal that saved the United States -- Why the world needs capitalism -- Ask Jackie. Issue number 168: My view: A personal word for BHM's print issue subscribers -- Build a concrete root cellar -- The importance of a prepper community -- Preparedness: walk the walk -- Ayoob on Firearms: Guns and years: Going back thirty -- Baking bread -- Off-grid retreat putting it all together, part 3 -- Ask Jackie -- Issues for 2018-20: Antifa, student debt, slavery reparation -- Make deer antler buttons -- The gee-whiz! page: Sleep -- Fermenting salsa and hot sauce -- Sweet potato greens -- What can you do with a quine -- Lenie in the kitchen: Creamy chicken and wild rice soup.
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